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Amendments to Maryland Constitutions
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County officers elected by the qualified voters at the election
to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of No-
vember, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, for
terms of office heretofore fixed by law at four years, shall hold
office for terms of three years; Registers of Wills, Clerks of
Court and all other State and county officers elected by quali-
fied voters at the election to be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday of November, in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-three, for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
six years, shall hold office for terms of three years; and all
such State and county officers elected by qualified voters there-
after shall hold office for terms of four years.
Section 4. All officers to be appointed by the Governor un-
der existing provisions of law in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-four for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
two years, shall hold office for terms of three years; all officers
so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at four
years, shall hold office for terms of three years; all officers so
appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at six
years, shall hold office for terms of five years, and thereafter
appointments by the Governor shall be for the terms heretofore
fixed by law, unless otherwise duly changed by law. All offi-
cers appointed by County Commissioners after the election to
be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of Novem-
, ber, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, for terms of office of
two, four or six years, shall hold office for terms of three years;
and thereafter appointment by the County Commissioners shall
be for terms of four years, unless otherwise duly changed by-
law.
Section 5. The terms of all State and county officers hereto-
fore elected by qualified voters, and whose successors would not
be elected until the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, shall be in-
creased by one year, and their successors shall be elected for
the regular term at the election to be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and
twenty-six. The terms of all State and county officers hereto-
fore elected by qualified voters, and whose successors would not
be elected until the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, shall remain
unchanged; their successors shall be elected for a term of three
years at the elections to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.


 
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